﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dv3="http://schemas.4matnetworks.com/DV3/1.0/"><channel><title>The 4MAT Blog</title><link>http://www.4mat.com/blog/RSS.aspx?usepaging=1&amp;category=&amp;sd=5&amp;maxitems=-1&amp;sitebound=0&amp;pagesize=10&amp;todate=30%2f11%2f2009+00%3a00%3a00&amp;status=LIVE&amp;sortby=0&amp;startdate=01%2f11%2f2009+00%3a00%3a00&amp;groupitems=0&amp;mode=3&amp;sortdirection=desc</link><description>News &amp; opinion from 4MAT - Powering your online recruitment world!</description><ttl>15</ttl><language>en-gb</language><generator>4mat.com DV3</generator><item><title>Google Analytics to be Banned by German Authorities?</title><link>http://i4m.at/75</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/75" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/analytics_logo.gif&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;
The Data Protection authorities in Germany consider the use of demographic characteristics of web visitors in Google Analytics to be illegal.... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/75' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-websiteanalytics' &gt;Website Analytics&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/75'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/75' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Don't Be Afraid Of...(Part Three)</title><link>http://i4m.at/76</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/76" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/TwitterTable.jpg&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Part Three: Don't Be Afraid Of...Embracing Your Twitizenship

Since it's creation in 2006, Twitter has taken the world by storm. 

Originally... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/76' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-4mat' &gt;4MAT&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-digitalpr' &gt; Digital PR&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-recruitment' &gt; Recruitment&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-socialmedia' &gt; Social Media&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/76'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/76' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:31:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>LinkedIn set to become fully Linked-Up</title><link>http://i4m.at/77</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/77" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/pic_brand_main_236x60.gif&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;LinkedIn today released full access for developers to their API. This is a set of tools that allows applications to integrate with LinkedIn data and ... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/77' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-recruitment' &gt;Recruitment&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-socialmedia' &gt; Social Media&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/77'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/77' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Top 10 Internet Moments of the Decade</title><link>http://i4m.at/78</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/78" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/webby.jpg&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the entry of Google's stock and the revolution in online video with YouTube are on the list of the te... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/78' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt;World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/78'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/78' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Don't Be Afraid Of...(Part Two)</title><link>http://i4m.at/79</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/79" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/feedback.jpg&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Part Two: Don't Be Afraid Of...Feedback

We're all out there, blogging, tweeting, digging...generally embracing the world of web 2.0.

And th... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/79' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-digitalpr' &gt;Digital PR&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-fun' &gt; Fun&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-socialmedia' &gt; Social Media&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/79'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/79' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:56:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Don't Be Afraid Of...(Part One)</title><link>http://i4m.at/7A</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/7A" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/untitled.bmp&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Part One: Don't Be Afraid of...Plain Text.

I can't even count how many emails I get on a daily basis - I operate out of Outlook and Hotmail ev... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/7A' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-4mat' &gt;4MAT&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-emailmarketing' &gt; Email Marketing&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-recruitment' &gt; Recruitment&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/7A'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/7A' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:49:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facebook Developer Garage</title><link>http://i4m.at/7B</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/7B" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/fbdgl_logo_small.gif&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;4MAT's Head of Development Gareth Jenkins, and Senior Web Developer Haris Waheed attended the Facebook Developer Garage to find out about the latest ... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/7B' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-4mat' &gt;4MAT&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-recruitment' &gt; Recruitment&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-socialmedia' &gt; Social Media&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-websitedevelopment' &gt; Website Development&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/7B'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/7B' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:46:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Media Shift : A Helpful Image?</title><link>http://i4m.at/7C</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/7C" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/masssocialmedia.png&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On my trawls around the worldwide web I recently found an interesting image that I thought I'd share with you all.

Would you have drawn it differe... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/7C' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-digitalpr' &gt;Digital PR&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-socialmedia' &gt; Social Media&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/7C'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/7C' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Business Social Networking &amp; You</title><link>http://i4m.at/7D</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/7D" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/social_media_sites.jpg&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We are all already aware that social media has quickly become an important part of the recruitment process, whether you're a candidate looking for a ... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/7D' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-recruitment' &gt;Recruitment&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-socialmedia' &gt; Social Media&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/7D'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/7D' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:45:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Twitterverse To Observe Silence</title><link>http://i4m.at/7E</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/7E" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/poppies.jpg&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In the minutes leading up to 11am, it seems poignant to report that the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal has called for the annual 2-minute silenc... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/7E' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-socialmedia' &gt;Social Media&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/7E'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/7E' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bing Delays UK Marketing Push. </title><link>http://i4m.at/7F</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/7F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/bing.jpg&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Microsoft has delayed the UK launch of Bing, the much-hyped rival to the Google search engine. 

The site has been in beta testing since June 2009 ... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/7F' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-searchmarketing' &gt;Search Marketing&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/7F'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/7F' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Keep me updated</title><link>http://i4m.at/7G</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/7G" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/frontpage_7.png&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Gone are the days when you had to be logged into every social networking platform under the sun to keep your friends, colleagues and business associa... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/7G' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-fun' &gt;Fun&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-socialmedia' &gt; Social Media&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/7G'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/7G' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:55:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bionic Noticing : Do You Do It? </title><link>http://i4m.at/7H</link><description>I recently wrote a blog entry about the relationship we have with technology, and how I fear a future that is similar to that depicted in films like ... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/7H' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-fun' &gt;Fun&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-socialmedia' &gt; Social Media&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-worldwideweb' &gt; World Wide Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/7H'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/7H' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google Commerce Search</title><link>http://i4m.at/7I</link><description>&lt;a href="http://i4m.at/7I" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border:none;float:left" alt="Article Image" src="http://www.4mat.com/File.aspx?path=ROOT/Images/commerce_search-64.gif&amp;height=60&amp;width=60"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Choose your flavour of search and increase your findability. 
Less than a couple of weeks ago I wrote about the release of Google’ Social Search and... &lt;a href='http://i4m.at/7I' &gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Categor(ies):&lt;/B&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.4mat.com/blog/category-searchmarketing' &gt;Search Marketing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://i4m.at/7I'&gt;&lt;img src='http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://i4m.at/7I' border='0' height='61' width='51' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>